Well, it looks like I can go back to just binging older anime exclusively, because there’s nothing there that caught my attention. I’ll undoibtedly watch Spy X Family some time but it’s a known quantity and I’ve been following the manga since the start, so I’m in no hurry.

Last week, I finished a rewatch of Scrapped Princess and loved it just as much as the first time. It’s just such a great series.

Then I happened on a bit of a surprise - Rokka no Yuusha. It’s a simple and intriguing set-up - when the demons invade the land, the six heroes - the Braves of the Six Flowers - will assemble to fight them. And sure enough, the demons are on rhe move and the heroes assemble - but there are seven of them. So it plays out as an imposter mystery, and is actually quite engaging. The only real problem with it seemed to be that it’s based on the first volume of a six-volume light novel series, so it has a somewhat open ending. But it was okay anyway - the ending was necessarily not entirely satisfying, but it worked. But then, in the last few minutes of the last episode, for who-the-hell-knows-what reason, it goes beyond that somewhat open but still sarisfying ending and tacks on some of the cringiest sequel bait I’ve ever seen anywhere. It was seriously so bad that at first I thought it was some sort of satire It didn’t really affect the series overall, since it was just tacked on to the end but my god it was awful.

And now I’m sort of knocking around, but I think I’m about ready to give Haibane Renmei the attention it deserves.